Examines the universal phenomenon of cost-sharing in higher education -- where financial responsibility shifts from governments and taxpayers to students and fa

The financing of higher education is undergoing great change in many countries around the world. In recent years many countries are moving from a system where t

Higher education is increasingly important to the labor market success of individuals and the prosperity of nations, yet, as this book shows, public funding for

The underlying theory of cost-sharing as well as the description of its worldwide reach were developed from 1986 through 2006 mainly by the works of Johnstone a

The demand and the costs for higher education have risen steeply in recent years. The most common response worldwide has been some form of cost sharing: shiftin